On January 17, the Knesset hosted a meeting of the Aliye and Absorption Commission on the persecution of Jews in the USSR during the reign of Stalin.
The meeting of the commission took place on the initiative of Knesset member Svetlova (Zionist camp). The work of the commission was attended by Knesset members from different parties, representatives of public organizations, as well as representatives of the Russian Embassy in Israel.
Deputy Svetlova said at the meeting: "In 1953, it was invented" the case of doctors "," Jewish murderers in white coats, "who allegedly tried to poison the top leadership of the Soviet Union. In those days, many Jewish doctors were arrested and imprisoned, and hundreds of people lost their jobs without warning. The most famous and reputable Jewish doctors were simply thrown out into the street, including my grandmother, Doctor Victoria Sorokina, and her memory is blessed. She told me many times how she came home and in front of her little daughter Svetlana, my mother, began to collect a suitcase. Grandmother was sure that she would be arrested and sent to the Gulag. Saved my grandmother and many others only that the tyrant Stalin died on March 5, 1953, on the feast of Purim. And so the persecution of the Jews was stopped, and so we were saved from being deported to Siberia. In recent years, I have noticed attempts to whitewash the name of a tyrant. Sometimes it is a conscious line, sometimes - just the fruit of ignorance of history. So, I was recently amazed to see the posters of one of the colleges in Tel Aviv, where portraits of Stalin were depicted ... People forget, and often do not know how terrible this person was and how bloody his deeds are, including, relation to our people. Therefore, I demand that the history of the Jews of the USSR be included in the compulsory study program in the schools of Israel, including the black pages of the persecution of Jews under Stalin. "
As a result of the meeting of the commission, it was decided to promote a bill that would oblige the Ministry of Education of Israel to include in the school curriculum a compulsory study of the history of the Jews of the Diaspora, including pages of the history of Soviet Jews, almost unknown in Israel.
Deputy Svetlova thanked the deputy of Dr. Avraham Nagos (Likud), the chairman of the Aliye and Absorption Commission, for his readiness to assist in promoting the relevant bill.